11-3-20 Tonight at 9PM ET GotMead Live will be talking with Dan McNevin. Dan is a home meadmaker with a penchant for foraging his mead ingredients and also for making weirdomels (technically known as experimental meads).

Dan has been mead making for 7 years and brewing beer for 26 years. He likes to forage for ingredients like Autumn Olive, blackberry, spruce tips, sumac, etc. He likes to use herbs and vegetables as well. He’s made Chocolate mint mead, lemon balm, lemon and thyme, lemon and sage (his wife’s favorite), a root vegetable mead with yam, carrot, radish, beet ginger finished with basil. That one didn’t score well at Mazer but he got great feed back. Those damn radishes! He’s made butternut squash with sage and backsweetened with maple syrup (Thanksgiving Mead!). Carrot cake. He loves to work with citrus, along with lemon, blood orange, sweet orange (Creamsicle). He makes apple pie & apple crisp Cysers, He has a cranberry cider with foraged crabapple and his own golden delicious apples, home grown Concord grape pyments. He has a green tomato mead in primary. Ever since he tried Brimminghorn Meadery’s green tomato mead, he planned to grow extra tomatoes for it. He has a lavender-chamomile with green tea ready to bottle. And of course his Mazer Cup winner Rojo Red, made with homegrown red raspberries with Pasilla de Oxacca chilies. Mild heat with a touch of smoke.

Dan is a toolmaker by trade who now manages a prototype/test lab of a medical connector-cable assembly company. He’s been married for 26 years and has a college age daughter. He has too many hobbies. He loves gardening and all things outdoors including bow hunting. Dan is also 3 term past president of of the “South Shore Brew Club” located south of Boston. He’s the newsletter coordinator now and still very active in the club. He helped out at the AMMA booth during HomeBrewCon in Providence RI, and had a blast meeting all the pro and home mead makers. He loves using homegrown and forage ingredients in beer, braggots, meads and ciders. His most unique/non traditional ingredient used is Daylilies. (Daylilies!)

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